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usual Grape from the door knob, was
suspended delicate wreath.
The Third church will this week con.
clude it's series of winter lectures, which
have been very successful and edifying
Prof. Frank T. Wilson, Superintendent
Of schools of Saltwater, Mimi, closes the
series with his lectures on "The Suns
Of the Universe" We expect at our
next writing to speak of this brilliant ed
ucator's effort in the lecture field.
THE West-End Dramatic Club, an
organization of the Third Society, played
last week the drama "Ten Nights in Bar
Room" to good houses. The club is a
credit not only to the society, but to this
part Of our city.
Personal
-Br. Crossfeld and wife, who have
been identified with the Third parish
almost from the beginning, have removed
to st. Paul. We commend them to Br.
Vail. Their address is 542 Laurel ave-
nue..
Mr.. G. p. Hazeltine, who has been
quite sick for few weeks, contemplates a
trip to California.
Mr.. Robert Blaisdell, who has been in
Southern California returned last week.
Mr.. George Crosby, who has been
in FrnanoPt and Ghica0o FOR tbraa xuooLs
past, reached home few days ago.
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THE MISSIONARY APPEAL.

The Treasurer of our State Conven-
ton, Br. f. A. Bonner, Of Belle PLANE,
complains that the funds are coming
in very slowly. Friends of Iowa, if you
have confidence in the officers that
were appointed at our last annual Con-
veution to carry on the work in the State,
please back us up by promptly sending
in your assessments. They are very
small and can be easily raised and paid
in. But many ought to give, whose
names are not down on our assessment
roll. Iowa is great State, and it is a
great work we are trying to do. Can we
have your help and cooperation in this
work? Be prompt, and in earnest; let us
know how much we can depend upon
from you.
Rev. Jam es Gorton has come to us from
Michigan; with fine record for success
full work. He is preaching in Cedar Falls,
and West Union, fields that had been va
cant for some time, and needs some nec-
essary aid to insure his success. West
Union will probably build chruch before
great while. We have been trying to
revive the church in Marshalltown. They
have a fine church building at the latter
place, a fine town of nearly 10000, near the
center Of the State. 1t would be shame
to abandon this fine field, after SO much
has been done, yet they feel the need of
some missionary aid until they can recover
from the severe strains put upon them in
the past. There are other fields needing
help, but enough just here.
There is constant cry for more min
istersp We need more ministers in the
State. If our people were as wide awake
as they ought to be, at least one minister
ought to be sustained in nearly every
county in the State. But let us sustain
those we already have in the State if they
are worthy, and perhaps more may be en-.
couraged TO come in.
Is our faith worth anything to us? Do
we mean business? What sort of record
shall we make for this Convention year?
The times are very propitious for the pro-
mitigation of our faith and the building
up of our church, if we do our full duty.
How many ministers are leaving the other
churches because they have been con-
verted to the larger faithl just recently
a young Methodist minister has come to
us in this State. The world is moving in
our direction. Is this time to be idle
and listless? Wake up, dear brothers and
sisters, wake up and go to work.
When any of our ministers visit and
try to stir you to church work, help them
all you can; give them your ears. your
eyes, your hearts, don't chill them will
too much criticism. We are all men
work with them, and let us have a revival
all round. JAMES A. HoYF.
Belle PldiRe.
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most successful in the history of the
school. Excellent work has been done
the average attendance has been about
| 100, a large number of new teachers have
| become interested and enlisted in the
work.-The services at st. PauPs on Sun
day morning were appropriate to Palm
Sunday. Eight accessions were made to
the church membership, and the COM
munion was observed.
Oak Park. Special services were held
in Unity church, Oak Park, every even
ing this week. Sermons were preached as
follows: Monday evening, Rev. J. Cole
man Adams; Tuesday, Rev. Florence
Kollock; Wednesday, Rev. A. N. Alcott;
Thursday, Rev. Charles Conklin; Friday
evening, by the pastor, Rev. A. J. Chaplin.
Mrs. Edna Chaplin Noble, Of Detroit,
will give a dramatic reading, April Is, at
Oak Park, under the auspices of the
Ladies' Social Union of Unity church.
Springfield. = The pastor, Rev. @. @.
Conner, writes: sour Y. P. ID. A. gave
very successful musicale, March 20, at
the church. The house was crowded;
several stood during the exercises.
The program was excellent and also ex-
cellently rendered. Br. Brigham was
with us Monday evening, on his road to
Girard. Twill hold meetings on Thursday
and Friday evenings, parish meeting Sat-
urdey eve. Will receive some members
Sunday. Br. Brigham will be with US
on Monday, and meetings will continue
over Easter. will go out to Lomai and
preach three evenings while he is here,
corning in during the day."
INDIANA.-Muncie.- Mr.. Guth-
rie writes: sour accessions still con-
tinue to come in. Have had but one Sun
day service since our revival that one or
more have not united with US, and yes
terday we received three persons"
O.-Cumminsyille,- &C. d. Tilbury
in ordering 400 "Belief, Statement, and
Samples of Blossoms" says: 81 want
these for distribution on Monday even
ing, April A. want to thoroughly "post
the people Of Oumminsville on the belief
Of Universalsts, SO when see a sample
of DR.. Pullman's leahet, 1 eau determine
whether it will assist enough to pay for the
investment Br. Pember is doing good
work for us, and we hope to soon be able
and strong enough both financially and
numerically to continue services regular
w."
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TEXAS.-ReV. James Billings, the
State Missionary, writes from Waco,
March 30: ave have had our semi-annu-
al session of the Association of UniYers-
alists of Texas, and assure you we have
had refreshing season. When l came
here into this great field of the Masters
vineyard as a lone missionary, five years
ago, without fee or reward, only the ar
NOR of good conscience, I did not ex-
pect to see the result that we now behold
We are getting into better working order.
Still we are in crude state, yet we are
confident that few more transitions will
bring US up out of this chaotic condition.
"The greatest thing that l fear now is,
that some may turn on too much steam
and the train may run of or jump the
track. 1t is a careful engineer who whis-
ties on the brakes when there is danger.
1t is my desire and prayer that we have
no drawbacks. We have had good meet
ings, and our outlook is encouraging; yet
oftentimes the sun comes up in the morn
ing and shines brightly, not cloud to be
seen, but it is soon darkened by cloud.
So it may be in building up the Zion of
our God. Still wicklow behind the dark
est cloud the sun shines. SO in our eff
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NORTHERN OHIO.

Akron, o., March 80, 1SS7.-TTo the
Editor of THE UNIvERsALIsT. The old
saying about March coming in like a
lamb and going out like lion is being
literally fulfilled here. The fret two or
three days of the month, were delight
fully gentle and balmy, but during
the middle and latter part, the lion has
shaken his name and roared terri6cally;
and continues TO hold visible sway over
the vegetable kingdom as well, man.
tie OF the beautiful" covering mother
earth to the depth of three or four inches
spread out during the night of the 28th
and morning of the Doth, with still more
falling and the weather severely cold.
AT Rayenna there will be services
appropriate to the day held on Easter
Sunday morning at the Universalist
church, at which time candidates will be
welcomed to the fellowship of the church.
Prof. Miss Jennie Clifford was called
to Columbus last week to attend her IA
ther who has been suffering from slight
stroke of paralysis. We learn that Fa-
ther Clifford is now much improved and
that Miss Clifford will be at her post of
duty to-day at the college, the beginning
of the spring term.
Hon. j. r. Buchtel. - About one
week ago Br. J. r. Buchtel came here from
Columbus, feeling quite unwell, and his
friends were for time, apprehensive of
serious illness; but through the influence
of rest and good nursing he is rapidly
recovering. HIS health was impaired
through exhaustion, while in the Hooking
Valley putting things in order there. and
III hard days walking and climbing in
viewing some mineral lands.
President o. Cone, of Buchtel Col
lege, was at jamestown, N. Y, last week,
where he presided at the annual meeting
of the directors of the Lakewood School
of New Theology. The doctor is a men,
Der of the board of instruction of the
Lakewood School, which has charge OF
the program for the summer encamp-
ment and curriculum of the reading cir
eles throughout the year.
"a Quarter Party will be given by
the ladies of the Universalist church on
Friday evening, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Hardy, 100 Bowry street." is
an announcement made by the Akron
Ladies' Circle committee this week. Sup.
per will be served from to p. NJ, and
pleasant time is anticipated, and it is
hoped the occasion will be profitable
financially as well as socially.
Our Akron pastor has been giving
a series of Thursday evening discourses
in the place of the usual conference
meeting. They are designed to be a sort
of prelude to the services of the Easter
season, and are held in the Sunday school
rooms and are as follows: March II, " The
Value of Religions" March "a, How to
get it," March 81, What to do With it,
April 7, Counting the Cost"
The Temperance Agitation over the
Dow Law is just now creating much ex-
citement in a great many Ohio towns.
The cities, however, have not yet risen to
the point Of demanding prohibition, they
being usually dominated in the liquor in
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tor6btS. Let IL a 1alr C6Sb COulu DO uhuo
many Of them would find they have 9
majority of the voters ia favor OF the sup
preston OF the traffic. In some of the
large towns mass meetings have been held
Hillsboro among the number. Able
speeches have been made by clergymen
and others, and the result go far as the
vote is concerned is a sweeping victory
for prohibition; in the above place the
vote was SIT for prohibition to 1875
against, a clear majority OF all the votes
cast of 389. But who are to enforce the
law? Are the people private citizens to
do the work which our officers are elected
to do, namely, enforce the law?
Rev. r.. b. MarsIl.-We learn that
Rev. r. B. Marsh has resigned his pas
torate at Kent, 70 take effect, most likely,
about the first Of April.
The question of putting a town clock
on the Kent Universalist church is being
agitated.
"A renewed interest is being felt here
in the work OF the Young Mems Chris
tan Association, and services in which
all the Protestant churches united, were
held on Sunday evening, March 20. The
object OF the meeting was to set forth the
work of the Association and the great
need of such work, together with the ulti-
mate purpose of interesting Akron's
wealthy citizens in the projection Of a
new building, to be used by the Associa-
ton and to cost about $4,000. The
statement was made before adjournment
that one OF our baukers-HoD. J. B.
Woods-had agreed TO give $4,000 to-
ward the carrying out of this important
work.
The Ohio State Teachers Aesocia-
ton will meet in this city, June $50.
The young lady soldiers, spoken of in
a former letter, are soon to be equipped
with appropriate uniforms, and will form
quite a feature in college affairs. The
"broom corps" is decidedly popular with
both lady and gentlemen students. The
cadet corps (gentlemeD) have received
their breech loading Springfield rifles
and now present fine soldierly appear
ance.
In view of the increasing interest in
the missionary work of the Uriversalist
church and the paramount Importance of
organizing all our available youth into
the most effective agency for church ex-
tension, we have long been thinking that
some united and systematic plan should
be adopted by our entire denomination,
looking to this end. We believe that the
Y. P. NJ. A. ought to have paper, which
should be the organ of the entire body,
and that they should also put an organ
izer into the field, who should visit the
different parts of the country and secure
the cooperation of pastors and people,
young and old, everywhere, inspiring all
the elements and bringing our young peo-
pie in different sections into hearty CO.
operation and communication in the
work. And we have in mind lady who,
if not too much engaged in other good
works, would make such an organizer as
would be required Her natural qualifi-
cations and her education, as we'll as the
work in which she has been engaged of
recent years, would make her most eff
cient in that direction. What say our
most active and earnest men and women
to such plan?
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forts TO lay the foundation of our church
edifice we may make mistakes in putting
some blocks of stone into it's foundation,
and cause defects in the wall; yet we
know that the great truths of God are
sure, permanent, and can be trusted. We
know that they shine as bright back of all
our mistakes and shortsightedness, as if
every move we make on this checker board
of human life were correct."
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HINTS ON PREACHING. A Cloud of Wit.
nesses. By the late Sumner Ellis, DID.
80 pages. Price, 80 cents, postage paid.
This little book is only what its title
indicates-a book of hints on preaching.
But on matters here set forth, many may
pause to take hint and profit by it, who
have no time for extended reading and
patient reflection. These hints are mostly
from acknowledged high sources and may
be regarded, in the words of Cervantes,
as ''short sentences drawn from long ex-
perlence." They are the abridgements of
wisdom. In many cases they are the
central ideas which their author has elab-
GRATED into chapters.-Dr Ellis in the
Preface,
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ghe 9nterinr.

ILLINOIS. - Chicago and Vicinity
At ST. Paups church Rev. Charles Conk-
lin will preach on Wednesday evening,
Rev. Florence Kolloek on Thursday, and
the pastor on Friday, when the COM
munion service viii be observed, con-
Quoted by Rev. DR.. Ryder.-A most en-
joyable lunch was spread at the meeting
of the Ladies' Aid Society, on Wednes-
day last, at which there was a good
attendance. - Inc industrial school Of
St. PanPs closed its sessions for the year
on March 26. The term has been the
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Three Lessons in Bible upiversalism.

This is an eight page leahet. 1t is di-
vided into three parts: Part /, The Con
hict between Good and Evil: Part 2, The
Divine Fatherhood: Part 8, The Final
Restoration. It consists of questions
and answers in relation to these subjects.
Included in the answers are the Bible
references supporting them. This is q
very valuable missionary document and
is worthy of a large circulation.
Ii will be sold at the following very
low prices: less than one hundred copies
one cent each; one hundred and more
copies at the rate of seventy-fve cents
per hundred including postage in both
cases. Orders received for any num-
Der wanted.
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MARYLAND.-BaltimOre-The con.
solidated societies in this city have the
refusal of an eligible lot in fine locality,
and canvass is now being made in the
city to secure funds for its purchase, the
large sum now in the treasury resulting
from the sale of the old church, being re-
served solely for the erection of the new
edifice.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.-Wash-
lngtOn.-The delightful entertainment
given at the church on the evening of
March 10, under the auspices of the La.
dies Aid Society, was highly successful
affair and abounded in novel features.
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The Belief of Universalists.

This is another four-page leahet which
will be received with favor by all who
desire compact and forcible missionary
document for general circulation. It is
entitled "a Statement OF the Belief Of
Universalists," and gives the distinctive
views OF our church with the Scriptural
references for Authorization.
The price is % cents per hundred this
is at the rate of 16 pages for one cent. It
is the cheapest and best statement of our
belief now before the public. Buy it and
give away freely.
Address all orders for these leaflets
Universaiist Publishing House, Western
Branch, So Dearborn street, Chicago.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.-Was
Backward, turn backward, o time in your

Backward, turn backward, o time in your
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Make me child again, just for to- night
is the exclamation, in thought, of many
man who has suffered through a long life
from some distressing disease, that he might
have cured with few bottles OF medicine like
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery"
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Father Time 10 "iy backward" for his spe-
cial benefit. Hence, f" Be wise to day, lis
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est druggist.
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In 1850

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cure for colds, coughs, hoarseness, asthma,
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OUR NEW LEAFLETS.
SCRIPTURE

EVIDENCES OF UNlVERSALISM.
The Publishing House has just issued
two leaflets admirably adapted to spread
abroad the knowledge of our faith, which
are sold at merely nominal prices:
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HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE
Invaluable.

Dr. B. A. Gable, Dauphin, Pa, says: 81
find it invaluable in all cases for which it is
recommended, and 1 cheerfully attest my
appreciation of its excellence"
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NEW CONGREGATIONAL SINGING BOOK.
L0W-PRICED MUSIC FOR OUR
CONGREGATIONS.
FAMILIAR HYMNS AND TUNES FOR CON.
EDUCATIONAL SINGING.

This work is now ready. 1t is compiled by
Rev. George L. Perrin, of Boston, and is wen
adapted for
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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE OF THE WEEK.

RESPONDENTS AND EXCHANGES OF "THE UNIvERsALIsr >
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-08-20
MINING DECiSION.

The Supreme Court has reversed the de cision of Judge Williams of Placer, 'who pre- sided in Butte in the case of Wm. Singer and Wm. Baker vs. Pershbaker. The prin- ciples laid down by the court are as follows: First-as between two persons, neither oi whom had done any work before his attemp- ted location, and both of whom claim to have made valid locations, the issue must be determined by reference to priority in the statutory designation on the surface of the limits of the claim. Second-A person doing work in the ground and who had in- dicated by his acts his intention to perfect a location under the mining laws and statutes should by proper application of the doctrine of relation to have first marked the bounda- ries of his claim lin legal effect) as against one who, for work or his discovery of min eral value, shall intervene and mark the boundaries before the first occupant shall have completed or even commenced his alignment. Mining and Scientific Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-08-20

A short time since the Commission rr of the General Land Office decided that married woman had no right to enter land under the Desert Act; that the law did not contemplate married women as separate from their husbands in such entries, and that but one entry, by the head of the family, could he allowed. The Secretary of the Interi or has reversed this decision, and al lows married woman to make an en try, on the ground that she acts as a femme sole. This ruling affects about forty cases now in the General Land Office.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-08-20

Again we repeat what we have so often expressed in these columns. that it is our firm belief that Yuma county will in the not distant future take a position in the front rank among the prosperous sections of the Pacific coast. And we believe also that there are no better opportunities anywhere for the investment of capital than this county offers today. Our agricultural, horticultural and mineral resources are marvelously rich, and the capital which shall be employed in their de- velopment will be rewarded an hun dred fold.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-08-20

The greatest railway accident in the history of this country occurred near Chatsworth His, on Friday night of last week, on the Toledo, Peoria and Western road. Nearly two hundred people were killed and ever 400 badly injured. The train was composed of six sleeping cars, six day coaches and three baggage cars. There were six hundred and seventy passengers on board all excursionists, and bound for Niagara Falls. Three miles from Chatsworth the railway track crosses dry run about ten feet deep and if teen feet wide, and over this was stretched an ordinary wooden trestle- bridge and when the train came down to it, it was seen to be on fire. There was no chance to stop as the train was within 100 yards of it before the fire flashed into the face of the engineer. The first engine passed over safely, but the second went down and the en- zine, six coaches and three baggage cars were piled one upon the other and over one hundred people were instant ly killed.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-08-20
A Monster Project.

Los Angeles orchardists have be- come so crowded for room on the west side of the Colorado desert that they have started project to take water from the Colorado river near Castle Dome, where an island of rock will protect a toma from which water will be carried to the lands below Yuma amounting to lS0,OOO acres. Fifty thousand acres of land have been pur- chased out of this tract within the past four weeks, of which leading San Francisco journal that sntagonizes land grabbers, took 7,000.-L. A. Herald.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-08-20

A short time since Dr. Coxe added a live Gila monster to his snake col lection in Lincoln's drug store, The G. NJ. behaved himself in a quiet neigh borly manner for awhile; but lady snake gave birth to A young, which event appeared distasteful to hls mon- strosity, who awoke from his sleep, raised his hideous head and hissed his deadly breath over his crawling kin, stupefying them, when he proceeded to kill and devOur big and little snakes, nor did he stop until the mother snake was well nigh snakeless. Courier,
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-08-20

The Territorial Live Stock Sanitary Com mission, at present in session in Prescott. are doing excellent work in providing safe- guards to protect the cattle of Arizona from the infectious and contagious diseases which are proving so disastrously fatal to the live stock interests of other sections With pleuro- pneumonia so rapidly advancing westward, there cannot be imposed a quar- antine of too strict character. -Hoof and Horn.